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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts.

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Why the startup sector should keep its eye on the SEC

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Anthony Cimino Contributor Share on Twitter Anthony Cimino , head of policy at Carta , works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. And the scale of the SEC’s proposed reforms should alarm entrepreneurs, investors and employees in the innovation economy.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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But Salient notes in its report that regulatory frameworks governing this space, especially e-pharmacy activities, have evolved since last year. 60% said theirs was on quality, while 43% of innovators claimed an effect in lowering pharmaceutical and drug prices. The second is clearer and forward-thinking regulations.

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AI chip startup Sima.ai bags another $30M ahead of growth

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“The funding will be used to accelerate scaling of the engineering and business teams globally, and to continue investing in both hardware and software innovation,” founder and CEO Krishna Rangasayee told TechCrunch in an email interview. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

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When you look at all the different areas of any enterprise company in LatAm, the CFO function is clearly the one that has had the least innovation,” said Karpovsky. In Latin America, larger enterprises are underserved by incumbents, and Mendel is democratizing access to best-in-class software and payments,” he wrote via email.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

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Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Kontent.ai

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History of The MP3

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As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. incumbents simply did not have the right teams to adapt to the changing environment.